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Quotes About Devil

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.
~ Martin Luther
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
~ Anne Rice
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
~ Joe Hill, Horns
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
~ Frederick Marryat
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
~ Jonathan Swift
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
~ Hugh Jackman
Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?
~ G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
~ Learned Hand
History - the devil's scripture
~ Lord Byron
History is the devil's scripture.
~ Lord Byron
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
~ James Lee Burke
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
~ Anne Rice
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
~ Anne Baxter
A saint abroad, and a devil at home.
~ John Bunyan
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
~ Brendan Behan
There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.
~ Martin Luther
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
~ Martin Luther
There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.
~ Adam Ferrara
I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
~ John Dryden